On paper we are playing the most attack minded formation since PW took charge but in reality we look less of a goal threat when we played one up front.
i think it needs stripping back to basics and going with 4-4-2. Get our wingers wide (Ogbene and potentially Hastie) and get Ladapo and Smith central and try to establish a partnership. We have a potential 20 goal man in Ladapo who’s never in the box due to the current formation.
Mattock lol man is a goal waiting to happen. When he plays other team score, came on and the goal came down his side and he was out of position, had one decent season not good enough as a defender for me.
That midfield would get out battled. We are very lightweight at the moment but playing a young and inexperienced four like that would be asking for trouble. This is a tough league where sides come to spoil, get stuck in and slow the game down. All those four will feature but not in the side altogether.
whiston01 problem we've got in midfield. Mcdonald he's lost it for whatever reason, too old to get it back. Crooks 1st time I saw him didn't look like an athlete nemind a footballer, league 2 player at best. Barlaser whose might be a touch younger than Lindsay but can hardly last 1st half out got to hope we can improve that cause I feel Wiles will have times at his age when he's not at his best. Think being away Saturday I'd go back to 4-5-1. Iversen; Olosunde Ihiekwe Roberton Mattock or Hinds; Ogbene Lindsay Barlaser Wiles Hastie; Smith
442 is very possible. 352 is also possible. The difference between 451 and 433 is very marginal - it's really about how wide two of the front three play and how much you encourage your midfield players to get up and past the central striker in support. In many ways playing 451 with a couple of quick lads wide, a mobile striker as a focal point (not just to chase lost causes) and asking someone our attack minded midfielders to bomb on might suit us well. I can picture the likes of Lindsay, Wiles and Crooks getting forward to support a front man and also having pace on the flanks. The point is that we seem now to have all the options which must be a good thing.
its going to be trial and error.
PW has started out very strongly in his preferred formation and he may yet see it out.
The midfield is a huge issue and its looking increasingly likely that we just don't have the relative quality for a 433. Only Ben offers the real dynamism required. Mcdonald is too slow, Barlaser too sloppy and Crooks seems to me to need a lot of coaching and just cant get up and down the pitch enough..
As we saw on saturday the introduction of a winger gave us much more threat
Whatever PW puts out it has to be a team that goes to win because draws just are not worth it
However, winning games gets teams promoted and draws wont
Because Im going to stay with 433 for the time being im going to have to put
